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JOHN D. SCOT-T, OF ALVISO, CALIFORNIA.

Leners Patent N .106,876, dated August 3o, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTLE-STANCHIONS.

The Schedulerefen'ed to in these Letters `Patent: and making part o! thesame To all whom it may cat zcern Be it known that I, J oHN D. SCOTT, ofAlviso, in the county of Santa Clara and State ot' California, haveinvented a new and improved Oattle-Stanchion; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,

reference being had to "the accompanying drawing forming part ot' thisspecification, in which- Figure l represents a side elevation, partly inscction, of my improved cattle-stanchion.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section'ot' the Similar letters ofreference indicate corresponding parts.

lhe object of this invention is to provide a simple and eicent device,for operating and fastening the pivoted stanchions by which hornedcattleare confined to their stalls.

The invention consists in the combination of a selflocking lever witheach pivoted stanchion, the lever .dropping by its own weight into agroove or notch of a transverse 'be-am, to thereby lock the stanchion inits vertical position. By a slight motion of the lever the stanchion canbe swung aside.

'lhe lever extends backward, to be reached without stepping to the sideot' the animal, and the diiculties hitherto connected with the fasteningor unfastening 'of the animal are therefore entirely overcome, besidesallowing their being placed closer together.

A, in the drawing,A is a pivoted stanchion, of' suita` ble kind,arranged in the front part ofa stall between a series of tixe'd posts, BB. Y

The upper end of the stanchion fits through a slotted main timber, C,and is guided in the same.

To a stringer, D, which runs across the back part of the stall on alevel with C, is pivoted a lever, E, whose front end tits through avertical slot of the stanchion, or through a vertical loop, a, formed onsaid lstanchion.

The rear end of the lever E forms a 'shorthandle projecting beyond theStringer.

When the stanchion is in the vertical position for holding the cattle,the front end of the lever E drops by its own weightinto a notch orgroove provided in the timber C, and serves thereby to lock the`stanchion. A slight pressure upon the rear end of the lever will lift itout of said notch to permit the swinging aside of the stanchion.

, `I do not claim the stanchion, nor the manner of' Witnesses:

H. H. WINCHELL, W. M. WILLIAMSON.

